The beach at Nazare, Portugal

September 10, 2021 · Will Hopkins

I want to photograph people

Not egos.

September 8, 2021 · Will Hopkins

What do I want to photograph?

This is a question I ask myself often. Like, way too often. To the point where I think it gets in the way. My kinds of photos I like taking aesthetic photos. Aesthetic photos, to me, contain just the right balance to provoke my brain into focusing on them. They aren’t, for me, very emotional. Aesthetics in my photos, or the ones I admire, tends to boil down to being drawn to the photo and usually not being sure why....

September 6, 2021 · me

A good place to have bad ideas

Quitting social media A few weeks ago, a petty tyrant mod on reddit got under my skin. I decided to take the rest of August off of social media and… I didn’t regret it? My brain has had more space in it the last while. I don’t have the same automatic responses to being bored. I killed my Twitter account, am about to kill my reddit account, and Instagram is relegated to the mobile webpage....

September 5, 2021 · me